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.

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.