A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries the most civilized in the day's of Augustus are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.

The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings, to keep our mind's eye and our heart's eye ever fixed on the land of promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.