You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?

Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.

It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.

These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.

The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined.