Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.

Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style.

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.

It was served of the Jesuits, that they constantly inculcated a thorough contempt of worldly things in their doctrines, but eagerly grasped at them in their lives. They were wise in their generation; for they cried down worldly things because they wanted to obtain them, and cried up spiritual things, because they wanted to dispose of them.

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

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