Never say more than is necessary.

It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the heart expands; where the countenance is ever placid and benign; where her favorite attitude is to stoop to the unfortunate; to hear their cry and to help them; to rescue and relieve; to succor and save; majestic, from its mercy; venerable, from its Lutility; uplifted, without pride; firm without obduracy; beneficent in each preference; lovely, though in her frown!

If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!