If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.