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.

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good.

The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.