Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

There is no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs and anthems.