A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.

And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.

When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.