Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.