Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.

Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.