It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.

Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.

Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.

There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.