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.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

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.

To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.