The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

God hides things by putting them near us.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.