There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.