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

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.

May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.