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.

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

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.