The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them.

I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless.

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

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

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.

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