I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.