Truly, our greatest blessings are very cheap.

The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

I am from time to time congratulating myself on my general want of success as a lecturer; apparent want of success, but is it nota real triumph? I do my work clean as I go along, and they will not be likely to want me anywhere again. So there is no danger of my repeating myself, and getting to a barrel of sermons, which you must upset, and begin again with.