“But Conversation, choose what theme we may,
And chiefly when religion leads the way,
Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs,
Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.”

“One should have bigger & better conversions everyday, like a mechanized phoenix.”

“But o'er CYRENE'S cheek the rose,
Like moon-touch'd water, ebbs and flows;
And eyes that droop like Summer flowers
Told they could change with shine and showers.”

“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”

“The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.”

“What a man knows should find its expression in what he does. The value of superior knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a performing manhood.”

“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.”

“Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space.”

“Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.”

“Time flows away like the water in the river.”