The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.