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

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

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

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?

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.