The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

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.

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.

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.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.