It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

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

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

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

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

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