Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.