A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.