We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.

It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.

The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

Well I've had a happy life.