Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.

When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

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

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.