Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.