It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

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

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.