Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

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

In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.