All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.

All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst the sons of men, a single exception to this maxim, the divine Socrates may be allowed to put in the strongest claim. It was his high ambition to deserve, by deeds, not by creeds, an unrevealed heaven, and by works, not by faith, to enter an unpromised land.

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself!