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

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

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.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

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