There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on.

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

It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments which we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.

In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon divine, Rolls through the dark blue depths.

Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.