Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.