Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those that deny the whole of it; since if Servetus had been a Mohammedan, he would not have been burnt by Calvin.

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

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.