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.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so…

Of the professions it may ge said that the soldiers are becoming too popular, parsons too lazy, physicians too mercenary, and lawyers too powerful.

Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun.