Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

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

The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.

If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.