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

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

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

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

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