Consult duty not events.

Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

Delay in justice is injustice.

Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.