Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
Virtue is too often merely local.
It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.
In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe.
Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.
The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.