Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.