The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.