Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.