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

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein nearer to God, only that they are created and finite in all respects, free from decay, free from the power of death, whereas God is infinite and uncreated.

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.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.