If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

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.