Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.

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

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

A hug is worth a thousand words.

To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.

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