Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

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

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed where others fail, not from a greater share of invention, but from not being nice in the choice of expedients.

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.