 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. |
| Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. Topics: Christianity |
| The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. |
| Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. |
| To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise. |
| 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. |
| As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud. |
| The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. |
| Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. |
