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?

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

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

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

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

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

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