Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.