Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.

If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of the barroom and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed.

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders.

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.