Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.

When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

Most men know what they hate, few what they love.