Silence is the mother of truth.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.