Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!

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.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.