To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.
Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
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.