Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

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.

Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

Humility is the secret of the wise.

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.