Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

Names govern the world.

A small unkindness is a great offence.

Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.

The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.