It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.
Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.
Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.
Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.