Isolation must precede true society.

God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

a good reader makes a good book