Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
