We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

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.

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

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.

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.