Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

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

The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.