It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.