Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.