Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

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

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

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

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

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

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