The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.