Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.

There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.