Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.

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

Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.