We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.