Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

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.

Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.