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

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

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

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

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.