Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.