No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

Ability without honor is useless.

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

What is more agreeable than one's home?

That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.