The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.

He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.