How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!