If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

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

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

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

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

After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper and humanize the affections, it is certain, that nothing hardens the heart like excessive and unbounded luxury; and he who refuses the fewest gratifications to his own voluptuousness, will generally be found the least susceptible of tenderness for the wants of others.

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.