Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

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

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

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

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.

Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.