Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the divine image in man! That man has lost his righteousness and happiness is clearly evident as we look at the state of the world today!

Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

Society is built upon trust.

That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.