Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

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.

Sight is by much the noblest of the senses. We receive our notices from the other four, through the organs of sensation only. We hear, we feel, we smell, we taste, by touch. But sight rises infinitely higher. It is refined above matter, and equals the faculty of spirit.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

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"?

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.