If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.