Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.