But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers of evil would it possess! Fortunately for the world, its venom, like that of the rattlesnake, when most poisonous, clouds the eye of the reptile, and defeats its aim.

Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.

We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame.