I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.