If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.