Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.