A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly.

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

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond endearments and tender officiousness; and, therefore, no one should think it unnecessary to learn those arts by which friendship may be gained.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.