He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.