The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.