The dangers gather as the treasures rise.

A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better understood, seemed highly probable to many of the aspiring wits in the last century

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.

The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.