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…

- James Hervey

Religion gives a dignity to distress.

- James Hervey

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

- James Hervey

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…

- James Hervey

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…

- James Hervey

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

- James Hervey

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…

- James Hervey

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

- James Hervey

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

- James Hervey