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

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?

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

The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined.

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

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.