The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

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

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.