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

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if I heard a voice from heaven proclaim it, that God is on the side of virtue. He has learnt much, and has not lived in vain, who has practically discovered that most strict and necessary connection, that does and will ever exist between vice and misery, and virtue and happiness.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

The truly great consider, first, how they may gain the approbation of God, and, secondly, that of their own conscience. Having done this, they would then willingly conciliate the good opinion of their fellow-men. But the truly little reverse the thing. The primary object with them is to secure the applause of their fellow-men; and having effected this, the approbation of God and their own conscience may follow on as they can.