The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.