Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
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.