We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.