It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.