I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

Now, I saw, upon a time, when he was walking in the fields, that he was, as he was wont, reading in his book, and greatly distressed in his mind; and, as he read, he burst out, as he had done before, crying, What shall I do to be saved?

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.