Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

Sudden love is latest cured.

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

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.

The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food,--they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.