A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.
We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.
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!
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice