Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.