Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.

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

Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.

You cannot separate charity and religion.

"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.