There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

It is so obvious to every reasonable being that he did not make himself, and the world in which he inhabits could as little make itself, that the moment we begin to exercise the power of reflection, it seems impossible to escape the conviction that there is a Creator.

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.

The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth. Never since the foundation of the world have the prospects of mankind been more encouraging to that hope than they appear to be at the present time. And may the associated distribution of the Bible proceed and prosper till the Lord shall have made 'bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God' (Isaiah 52:10).

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.