Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
The woman that deliberates is lost.
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
The post of honour is a private station.
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
