Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.
Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.