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

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

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

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.

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

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

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.