The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

We are all guilty of the good we did not do

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.