It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.

A person hears only what they understand.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell