No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed

I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.