While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.

We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.

An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.