The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.
The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.