Miscellanea

How it is possible that one who is in reality distinguished above others can reckon those to be superior to him who he knows are greatly beneath him? Let him… employ …

It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other to labour to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over …

If I do truly love goodness in rich apparal, why do I not also love it in rags?

For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more—remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men’s hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very …

This is the first test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

He that hates thy sins most, loveth thee best.

It were an easy thing to be a Christian, if religion stood only in a few outward works and duties, but to take the soul to task, and to deal roundly with our own hearts, …

All Christians are brethren. The greatest men in the world, the mountains, if they be Christians, they are brethren to the lowest. And it fills up the valleys. The …

Thorns will not prick of themselves, but when they are grasped in a man’s hand they prick deep. So this world and the things thereof are all good, and were all made of …