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.

The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.

You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

There is no figure more common in scripture, and none more beautiful, than that by which Christ is likened unto light. Incomprehensible in its nature, itself the first visible, and that by which all things are seen, light represents to us Christ. Whose generation none can declare, but Who must shine upon us ere we can know aught aright, whether of things Divine or human.

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton; ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle.

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor