Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

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

The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.

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.

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

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

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.