Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

Names govern the world.

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