Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance; as where the same ideas are conjoined without any natural series or necessary coherence, or where not only the thought but the words are copied.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.