Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

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