Pity is like eating mustard without beef.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

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

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

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

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

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.