A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

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

Misgive that you may not mistake.

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but it demanded none. The very pretension to truth, the very demand of faith, were characteristic distinctions of Christianity.