Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.