By writing much, one learns to write well.

My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road; but, after all, one wants to be at rest.

I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief."

For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.

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.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.