Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what do we truly know, or what can we clearly affirm, of any one of those important things upon which all our reasonings must of necessity be built--time and space, life and death, matter and mind?

To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.