If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.

Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!