A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.