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

Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

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