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

The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today

It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.