That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

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

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

There can be no Christianity where there is no charity

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.