Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.