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

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.

Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.

Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.

Children are what the mothers are.

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one