There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me better. The ablest physician can do little in the great lazar-house of society. He acts the wisest part who retires from the contagion.

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

By writing much, one learns to write well.

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

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

Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.

Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.