Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.