Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.

Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.

Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.