Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend; a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.

No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.