A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.

Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, ''I bet that my Redeemer liveth.''

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.