The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

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.

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

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

The laws are with us, and God on our side.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.