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

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.