Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.
Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.
To do nothing is in everyone's power.
A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.
Good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects few materials for its own operations, and preserves safety, but never gains supremacy.