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

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

Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on.

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

Misgive that you may not mistake.

Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him to move from place to place, or that a ship provided with a compass can sail without a wind.

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.