Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.

Only the fools are certain and assured.