Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous.

He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few are formed with abilities to discover new possibilities of excellence, and to distinguish themselves by means never tried before.

Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.