There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

Among the many evils which prevail under the sun, the abuse of words is not the least considerable. By the influence of time, and the perversion of fashion, the plainest and most unequivocal may be so altered, as to have a meaning assigned them almost diametrically opposite to their original signification.