Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.

What is once well done is done forever.

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

I take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,--for I have had a little experience in that business,--that there isa desire to hear what I think on some subject, though I may be the greatest fool in the country,--and not that I should say pleasant things merely, or such as an audience will assent to; and I resolve, accordingly, that I will give them a strong dose of myself. They have sent for me, and engaged to pay for me, and I am determined that they shall have me, though I bore them beyond all precedent.

The voice of nature is always encouraging.