To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

He who is in love with himself has no rivals.

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

What can laws do without morals?

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.

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