They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.