Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from the Most High. I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force.

He is great who confers the most benefits.

A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.

Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.