Money confounds subordination.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till wishes for a particular qualification are improved to hopes of attainment, and hopes of attainment to belief of possession.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

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

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.