Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on.

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

There is no security in a good disposition if the support of good principles--that is to say, of religion, of Christian faith--be wanting. It may be soured by misfortune, it may be corrupted by wealth, it may be blighted by neediness, it may lose all its original brightness, if destitute of that support.

Cupid "the little greatest god."

The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory

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

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