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.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.

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

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.

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

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

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