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

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

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.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

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

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.