If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.

The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success.

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer.

There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.