It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.

So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.