Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.