Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.

Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.