No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.