The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Where mystery begins religion ends.

Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.