There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.

There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess. Had Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth been more wise or more weak, more firm or more yielding, in either case they had both of them saved their heads.

Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.