Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

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.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

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.

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.