Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.

The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.