That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

You cannot separate charity and religion.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.

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.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.