All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

There is no protection against slander.

The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.