Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
