Reflection makes men cowards.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Principle is a passion for truth.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.