Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.

There is always safety in valor.

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.