To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

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

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

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.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.