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

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.

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.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

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