Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

We found in the course of our journey the convenience of having disencumbered ourselves, by laying aside whatever we could spare; for it is not to be imagined without experience, how in climbing crags and treading bogs, and winding through narrow and obstructed passages, a little bulk will hinder, and a little weight will burden; or how often a man that has pleased himself at home with his own resolution, will, in the hour of darkness and fatigue, be content to leave behind him everything but himself.

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.