We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

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.