Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

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.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

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.

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.