The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body.