Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.

Youth is everywhere in place.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.