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

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?

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

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

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

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

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