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

All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.

Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

There are male as well as female gossips.

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.