The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .