--So saying, the little gentleman doubled his left fist and
looked at it, as if he should like to hit something or somebody a most
pernicious punch with it.
Good!--said I.--Now let me give you some axioms I have arrived at, after
seeing something of a great many kinds of good folks.
----Of a hundred people of each of the different leading religious
sects, about the same proportion will be safe and pleasant persons to
deal and to live with.
----There are, at least, three real saints among the women to one among
the men, in every denomination.
----The spiritual standard of different classes I would reckon thus:--
1. The comfortably rich.
2. The decently comfortable.
3. The very rich, who are apt to be irreligious.
4. The very poor, who are apt to be immoral.
----The cut nails of machine-divinity may be driven in, but they won't
clinch.
----The arguments which the greatest of our schoolmen could not refute
were two: the blood in men's veins, and the milk in women's breasts.
----Humility is the first of the virtues--for other people.
----Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of
a greater.
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