A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.