I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

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.

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

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.