In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

True virtue, when she errs, needs not the eyes of men to excite her blushes; she is confounded at her own presence, and covered with confusion of face.

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.