Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

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

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.