The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world.