A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

The present is never a happy state to any human being.

Men become friends by a community of pleasures.

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.

We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.