Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

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

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.