To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

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

To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.