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

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.

Pity is like eating mustard without beef.

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.

The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.

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

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.