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

A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.

A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.

Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

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

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

The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.