It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

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

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.

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

Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on.