The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a great task for me to correct it; and wilt thou be pleased to correct it for me, that I may get along easier?" If prayer was answered under such circumstances, independent of action of natural laws, it would be paying a premium on indolence.

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.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.