Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.