A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.