The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

He that has too much to do will do something wrong.