No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

A man has no enemy worse than himself.