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

It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

It was served of the Jesuits, that they constantly inculcated a thorough contempt of worldly things in their doctrines, but eagerly grasped at them in their lives. They were wise in their generation; for they cried down worldly things because they wanted to obtain them, and cried up spiritual things, because they wanted to dispose of them.

Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.