Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?

The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.

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

The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.

Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.