Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.