The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

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

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

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

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

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.