All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.