Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.

Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what do we truly know, or what can we clearly affirm, of any one of those important things upon which all our reasonings must of necessity be built--time and space, life and death, matter and mind?

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.