I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.