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

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

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

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

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.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.