Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.

Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.

Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!