The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Travel teaches toleration.

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.