No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road