I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.