There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of blue pill!-What awful instances of chronic dyspepsia in the characters of Hamlet and Othello! Banish dyspepsia and spirituous liquors from society, and you have no crime, or at least so little that you would not consider it worth mentioning.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all and the Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness.

A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.