Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

Now I want you to think that in life troubles will come, which seem as if they never would pass away. The night and storm look as if they would last forever; but the calm and the morning cannot be stayed; the storm in its very nature is transient. The effort of nature, as that of the human heart, ever is to return to its repose, for God is Peace.

A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home

Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.