Pity is like eating mustard without beef.

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.

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

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.

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

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

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