A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.

The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness!

There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.