Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.