So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.

Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.

Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.