I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.

Our expenses are all for conformity.

Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.