There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians is to guard against all appearance of evil to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil and to have a guard upon our actions that they may not be sinful or so much as seem to be so.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others but only those who have greater designs.

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.