It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.