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.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

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.

People can commend the weather without envy.

I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.