No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.

A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.

When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.