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.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.

In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.