That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.