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

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

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.

Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.

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

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

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.