Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein nearer to God, only that they are create….

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch..

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself..

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

Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often aga….

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying..

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them..

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 w….

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..

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….

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are..

Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head..

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things..

The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads throu….

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 ….

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it..

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

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men..

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in h….

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience..

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel..