If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.