Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.

So often has my judgment deceived me in my life, that I always suspect it, right or wrong,--at least I am seldom hot upon cold subjects. For all this, I reverence truth as much as any body; andif a man will but take me by the hand, and go quietly and search for itI'll go to the world's end with him:MBut I hate disputes.

Upon the present theological computation, ten souls must be lost for one that is saved. At which rate of reckoning, heaven can raise but its cohorts while hell commands its legions. From which sad account it would appear, that, though our Saviour had conquered death by the resurrection, he had not yet been able to overcome sin by the redemption.

The best hearts are ever the bravest.

A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.