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

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

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.

There is another world for all that live and move-a better one!

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.