To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.

Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.