I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.

He who is in love with himself has no rivals.