Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.