The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.