The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

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.

Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed of baser materials, and if tried in the furnace will be found to want that fixedness which is the characteristic of gold. He that pursues virtue, only to surpass others, is not far from wishing others less forward than himself; and he that rejoices too much at his own perfections will be too little grieved at the defects of other men.

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors