The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess

Friendship is a sheltering tree

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all