To know nothing is the happiest life.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

No one respects a talent that is concealed.