I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.
Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.
Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the way, always large enough for the full exercise of his powers and the supply of all his legitimate wants.