Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and leaves the pale of propriety farther behind her, it is because she is aware that all return is prohibited, and by none so strongly as by her own sex.

Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.