We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.