It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.

No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.