To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible that any one man should know all….

The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased..

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed..

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar..

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence rece….

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….

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortu….

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say..

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

Love can be founded upon Nature only..

A fool and his words are soon parted..

To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn..

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it..

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together..

I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally b….

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purpos….

Theirs is the present who can praise the past..

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich..

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places..

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

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