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

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

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

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

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

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

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.