How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.
Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
To see the world is to judge the judges.
One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.