None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.
The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.
If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.