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.

As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies.

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

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl may be graceful, but an elegant woman must be accomplished and well trained. It is the same with things as with persons; we talk of a graceful tree, but of an elegant house or other building. Animals may be graceful, but they cannot be elegant. The movements of a kitten or a young fawn are full of grace; but to call them "elegant" animals would be absurd.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.