Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.
Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?
Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.
Is it not an amazing thing, that men shall attempt to investigate the mystery of the redemption, when, at the same time that it is propounded to us as an article of faith solely, we are told that "the very angels have desired to pry into it in vain"?