My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

You can take better care of your secret than another can.

The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.