To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

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.

Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop. It is like one of those fiends in old stories which any one could raise, but which, when raised, could never be kept within the magic circle.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.

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

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.