Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.