If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

Sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies, and providing against them.

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.