Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.

No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .

I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.

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.