Anger is practical awkwardness.

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.

The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.