Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

Falsehood is fire in stubble; it likewise turns all the light stuff around it into its own substance for a moment, one crackling blazing moment, and then dies; and all its converts are scattered in the wind, without place or evidence of their existence, as viewless as the wind which scatters them.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.