Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe to God for any blessing, is, that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.

One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.