I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

Gratitude is a species of justice.

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.