If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

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

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.