Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.