To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.