An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back; 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.