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.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

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.

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