Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.

It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.