I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.