There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

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

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

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