Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.