Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.

By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.