It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.