Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

There are too many who reverse both the principles and the practice of the Apostles; they become all things to all men, not to serve others, but themselves; and they try all things only to hold fast that which is bad.

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.