Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,- For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.

The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.