It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

Men can make an idol of the Bible.

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.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.