It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.