Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective.

- James Sharp

I would not cross the street to make a Baptist, but I would go round the world to make a Christian.

- James Sharp

It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our futu…

- James Sharp

It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.

- James Sharp

It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps Madame de Maintenon would never have mounted a throne had …

- James Sharp

Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the corn, it is true, b…

- James Sharp

All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow …

- James Sharp