Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.