Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.

To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.