Indolence is the devil's cushion.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.