A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.