Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

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.