If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

Endless is the search of truth.

So often has my judgment deceived me in my life, that I always suspect it, right or wrong,--at least I am seldom hot upon cold subjects. For all this, I reverence truth as much as any body; andif a man will but take me by the hand, and go quietly and search for itI'll go to the world's end with him:MBut I hate disputes.

Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.