There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its wind-flower, and every crevice a leaf; while from the fertile soil will be reared a gorgeous troop of growths, that will carry their life in ten thousand forms, but all with praise to God. And so it is when the soul knows its summer. Love redeems its weakness, clothes its barrenness, enriches its poverty, and makes its very desert to bud and blossom as the rose.

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.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.