It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.

Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.

In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.