Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.