All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.