Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

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

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.