I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

The order of things consents to virtue.

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.