Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.

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.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.