Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

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.

It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.

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

We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.