When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.

Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

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

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best mode of preventing the necessity of either.