That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.

We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.

Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

Consult duty not events.