Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.

The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.

Evasions are the common shelter of the hard-hearted, the false, and impotent, when called upon to assist; the real great alone plan instantaneous help, even when their looks or words presage difficulties.

The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.

All finery is a sign of littleness.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.