Labour is man's great function, his peculiar distinction, his privilege. Can he not think so? Can he not see, that from being an animal to eat and dr….

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart..

The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves..

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance..

Occupied people are not unhappy people..

God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it..

The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which springs from it may have a thousan….

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation..

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, a….

The dead carry our thoughts to another and nobler existence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly untoward circumstances of….

Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if they do n….

A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses--vanishing away of things--are among t….

How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place ….

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command..

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment..

We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others..

Godliness is practical religion..

Politeness is practical Christianity..

What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?.

Truth is the root of all the charities..