Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.

Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if I heard a voice from heaven proclaim it, that God is on the side of virtue. He has learnt much, and has not lived in vain, who has practically discovered that most strict and necessary connection, that does and will ever exist between vice and misery, and virtue and happiness.

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.