It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.