We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.