The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.