Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

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

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

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

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.