In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

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

Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.

Lately we have had many losses.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.