To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.
Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.
The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.
Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.