If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

Men are better than this theology.

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.