How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!

Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it may not, and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence.

A modest man never talks of himself.

Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.