The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages. A peace will equally leave the warrior and the relater of wars destitute of employment; and I know not whether more is to be dreaded from streets filled with soldiers accustomed to plunder, or from garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lie.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.