All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

A rogue is a roundabout fool.