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

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent..

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil..

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little..

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them..

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 w….

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise..

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

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

Pity is like eating mustard without beef..

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others..

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet..

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian..

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them..

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 pare….

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enoug….

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud..

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action..

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..