General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.