Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.

He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

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

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.