It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

Better too much form than too little.

The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was no murderer, because he had no such design. And, on the other hand, a man who should lie in wait to assassinate another, and pull the trigger of a gun with that intent, would be morally a murderer, not the less though the gun should chance to miss fire.

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

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

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.