Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein nearer to God, only that they are created and finite in all respects, free from decay, free from the power of death, whereas God is infinite and uncreated.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

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

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Pity is like eating mustard without beef.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.