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

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

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.

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.