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

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

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

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe to God for any blessing, is, that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.