If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.