Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

A man should give us a sense of mass.

In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.