Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

An excuse is a lie guarded.

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.