Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.

It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering into refined speculations, it may be shown much easier to design than to perform. A man proposes his schemes of life in a state of abstraction and disengagement, exempt from the enticements of hope, the solicitations of affection, the importunities of appetite, or the depressions of fear.

Surely, it is much easier to respect a man who has always had respect, than to respect a man who we know was last year no better than ourselves, and will be no better next year.

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.