We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.

If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.