Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.

The soul on earth is an immortal guest.

Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.

He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

it may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other, to answer the end of vision. There are certain faults which press too near our self-love to be even perceptible to us.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.