Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.

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