Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

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.