The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.

Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.

For they wished to fill the winepress of eloquence not with the tendrils of mere words but with the rich grape juice of good sense.