To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.

Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.