When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

Misgive that you may not mistake.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.