Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.

Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.

the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.

Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

we contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's enemies, when perhaps we invoke it because they are ours.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.