The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.

There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.