Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

Went to church and fasted all day.

It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot.

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles.