Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

Nature is God's Old Testament.

Politics is the science of urgencies.