Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.