Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.

When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.