I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.