I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.