"Anger [is], according to some, a transient hatred, or at least very like it."

"Innocence is like polished armour; it adorns, and it defends."

"[W]onder is from surprise; and surprise ceases upon experience."

"Truth itself shall lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none."

"For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or …"

"[H]e that despairs limits an infinite power to a finite apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little contr…"

"It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where men care not to do a thing, they shelter themselves under a pe…"

"[N]o man's religion ever survives his morals."

"[T]here never was any heart truly great and generous' that was not also tender and compassionate."

"An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the Rudiments of Paradise."