Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest.

We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.