A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

There are too many who reverse both the principles and the practice of the Apostles; they become all things to all men, not to serve others, but themselves; and they try all things only to hold fast that which is bad.

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

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

Anger is practical awkwardness.