As soon as there is life there is danger.
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
We can see well into the past we can guess shrewdly in to the future but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.
A man builds a fine house and now he has a master and a task for life is to furnish watch show it and keep it in repair the rest of his life.
The high prize of life the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that if you let it alone it will let you alone.
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
Though I am weak yet God when prayed Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
Every man is a borrower and a mimic life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
The high prize of life the crowning fortune of man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.