A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

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

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

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

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.