Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

Anything less than full justice is cruelty.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.