In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.

Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

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

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other