Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.

All powerful souls have kindred with each other

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.