No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.