Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

She is deceitful as the calm that precedes the hurricane, smooth as the water on the verge of the cataract, and beautiful as the rainbow, that smiling daughter of the storm; but, like the mirage in the desert, she tantalizes us with a delusion that distance creates, and that contiguity destroys.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual might suit a being as pure, but men are compound animals; and the body too often lords it over the mind.

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.