What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!

Little, indeed, does it concern us in this our mortal stage, to inquire whence the spirit hath come; but of what infinite concern is the consideration whither it is going. Surely such consideration demands the study of a life.

War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and religion, is nevertheless so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clear necessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it.

Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.