The only true source of politeness is consideration.

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.