Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

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.

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.