Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.

It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.

A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.

What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and sorrow; and happy is it if the last can cure the mischief which the former work. When afflictions fail to have their due effect, the case is desperate.

I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.