Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

Misgive that you may not mistake.

It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

Men first make up their minds (and the smaller the mind the sooner made up), and then seek for the reasons; and if they chance to stumble upon a good reason, of course they do not reject it. But though they are right, they are only right by chance.