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

Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.