Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But for the same reason everyone is eager to instruct his neighbours. To be wise or to be virtuous is to buy dignity and importance at a high price; but when nothing is necessary to elevation but detection of the follies or faults of others, no man is so insensible to the voice of fame as to linger on the ground.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.