Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.