In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.