If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

Did the Almighty, holding in his right hand truth, and in his left hand search after truth, deign to proffer me the one I might prefer, in all humility, but without hesitation, I should request search after truth.

The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.

How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.