The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.

No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.

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

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.