If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.

Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]

These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.