It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

True wit never made us laugh.

The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.