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.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

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

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

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.