They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.