In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But theworks of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.

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

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.