There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.

The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them.