No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

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.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.