Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.