Rarely do they appear great before their valets.

A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

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

When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.