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

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual might suit a being as pure, but men are compound animals; and the body too often lords it over the mind.