Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.