There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.