The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
From Augustus Hare
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
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.
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
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.
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
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