Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.
Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.
Be a gift and a benediction.
If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.