To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity of their lives. Of such men we may more justly exclaim, than of Caesar, "Confound their virtues, they've undone the world!

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.