Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.