Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.