Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

The tree is but a huge boquet.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.