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

I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us--but I seldom resist him at all; from a terror, that though I may conquer, I may still get a hurt in the combat--soinstead of thinking to make him fly, I generally fly myself.

We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.

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"?