In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those that deny the whole of it; since if Servetus had been a Mohammedan, he would not have been burnt by Calvin.

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. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon.

Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

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

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.