There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.