The future is bought with the present.

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

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

To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The prizes which some have received for their multiplicity of languages may be sufficient to excite industry, but can hardly generate confidence.