There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.