It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

Perish discretion, when it interferes With duty!

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower.