The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.