Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.