To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for Himself is love: and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours. The apostle calls it the band of perfection; it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the Law.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.