Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best mode of preventing the necessity of either.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.