Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion; but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.