Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.