It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words.

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.

Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?