Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

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

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.

It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections; to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop.

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