Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.