Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.