The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

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

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst the sons of men, a single exception to this maxim, the divine Socrates may be allowed to put in the strongest claim. It was his high ambition to deserve, by deeds, not by creeds, an unrevealed heaven, and by works, not by faith, to enter an unpromised land.

In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.