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

Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

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

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

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?