It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most absurd doctrines are not without such evidence as martyrdom can produce. A martyr, therefore, by the mere act of suffering, can prove nothing but his own faith.

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.