I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.