When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.