Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.

It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.

A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).

Experience makes us wise.

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.