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

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

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.

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