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.