I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it useless, and, being a good draughtsman, he went up to the next hill to make a drawing of the fire,--the best instance of philosophy I ever heard of.

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

The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith; the successful man feels that the objects which he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the cravings of an immortal spirit; the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he may save his soul alive.

A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.

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

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

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.