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

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.

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

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

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

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.

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.