In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

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

Blame is safer than praise