You cannot separate charity and religion.
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
Anger is practical awkwardness.
The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.
The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.
It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose wise counsellors was, in a prince, the highest wisdom.