The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.