Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.