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.

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

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

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

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

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