Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.

Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.