Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!

A little integrity is better than any career.

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

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.