Hatred is a settled anger.

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.