It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

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

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

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

There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for they can no more improve their taste by so doing than they could improve their appetite or digestion by studying a cookery-book.

Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.

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