If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

Power educates the potentate.

Never read any book that is not a year old.