No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

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.