A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.