Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence or spark of genius they may contain, however studied they may have been beforehand, will appear to the audience to be the effect of the sudden inspiration of talent.

Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.

The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.

Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.