The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.

Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections; to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop.