There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the leaf which bears them, but are totally unable to take in the ensemble of the plant or shrub. When error has effected an entrance into such minds, it remains there impregnable, because no general view assists them in throwing off the chance impression of the moment.

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.

Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.