Religion gives a dignity to distress..

Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation..

Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain..

God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with delight..

I believe in treating others as I want to be treated--but I certainly don't believe in turning the other cheek and the truth is that I never knew any….

The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Natu….

Man is a product of nature, a part of the Universe. The Universe is operated under exact natural laws. Man is a product of millions of years of evolu….

The ocean is the grand vehicle of trade, and the uniter of distant nations. To us it is peculiarly kind, not only as it wafts into our ports the harv….

Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, ac….

Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not ov….

Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven..

The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise..