One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.

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

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

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

Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries the most civilized in the day's of Augustus are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.

Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.

Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.