As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.