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

In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?

The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.