Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects.
As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
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.
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.
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.