True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.

Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.

He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.