Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
