The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.

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

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

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.

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

Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without.

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.