Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning, humility, and virtue;--that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman's life both glorious and happy.

Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?