Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.

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.

The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

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

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.

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

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.