Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.

The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.