Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.

The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.