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

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

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

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

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

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

Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.