Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.