Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

Pity is like eating mustard without beef.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

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

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

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?