All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.

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

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

Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.