The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.

My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.