The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.