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

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.

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.

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.

Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.

As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.