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

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

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

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.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.