If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.

How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.