Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.