Crimes generally punish themselves.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .