No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant

At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.