A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for ….

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character..

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom..

It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one..

Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity ….

No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both..

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte..

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war..

Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral im….

Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it..

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct..

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune..