Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing

Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

The pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bearthe earliest brunt. From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invokedfor favorable winds. Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight.

It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.