The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Books, the children of the brain.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.