All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

No man is so great as mankind.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable

That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.