It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

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

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.