We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

People read every thing nowadays, except books.

We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.

There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.