Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

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.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.