I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.