The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.