If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

No improvement that takes place in either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and the respective refinement of the one will always be in reciprocal proportion to the polish of the other.

Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.