Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

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

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.