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

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

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

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

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.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.