It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments which we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.

Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.

In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.

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

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.