I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor; do not try the law; do not think of the ministry; let alone all ships and merchandise; abhor politics; don't practice medicine; be not a farmer or a soldier or a sailor; don't study, don't think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave!

Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.