We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.

In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.