He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.