Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.