The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.

What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.

He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.