A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.