How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

Every man is of importance to himself.