Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.

The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good.

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.