Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.