God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

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