The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: "What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man."

The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her in love with him than the handsomest man, if he can produce no such conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously only when ingrafted on that love which is rooted in the breast of another.

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.