Pictures must not be too picturesque.

I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

All my hurts my garden spade can heal.

To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.