Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

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?

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

Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

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.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.