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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.
A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.
The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
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 parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
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 again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.
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.
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
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 working together.
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
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 through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
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.
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, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
Pity is like eating mustard without beef.
Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
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 world for his coming.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
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 conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
