Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.

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

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.