Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.

Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop. It is like one of those fiends in old stories which any one could raise, but which, when raised, could never be kept within the magic circle.

It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.

It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.