There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.

Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.

What sun is there within us that shoots his rays with so sudden a vigor? To see the soul flash in the face at this rate one would think would convert an atheist. By the way, we may observe that smiles are much more becoming than frowns. This seems a natural encouragement to good-humor; as much as to say, if people have a mind to be handsome, they must not be peevish and untoward.

True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.