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

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.