Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

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

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

Display is as false as it is costly.