Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.

We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.