The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions