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

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.