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.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

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.

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

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

when these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but because they are thinking of what they themselves shall say when they can seize the first lucky interval, for which they are so narrowly watching?

parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.