Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.

It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it.