There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigor and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable companion in the commerce of human life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts.