Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.
He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.