Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.