When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

America is a country of young men.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.