Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

Webster never goes behind government, and so cannot speak with authority about it. His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate no essential reform in the existing government; but for thinkers, and those who legislate for all time, he never once glances at the subject.... Comparatively, he is always strong, original, and, above all, practical. Still, his quality is not wisdom, but prudence.

Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.

As for health, consider yourself well.

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.