For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

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

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.