The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.

Misgive that you may not mistake.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads.

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

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

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