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

The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.

That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.