In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.

The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.

Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.

It is generally allowed, that no man ever found the happiness of possession proportionate to that expectation which incited his desire, and invigorated his pursuit; nor has any man found the evils of life so formidable in reality, as they were described to him by his own imagination; every species of distress brings with it some peculiar supports, some unforeseen means of resisting, or powers of enduring.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.