“To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.”
“I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.”
“No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.”
“That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.”
“I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.”
“Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.”
“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
“Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.”
“Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.”
“It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.”
“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”
“I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.”
“The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.”
“Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.”
“There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.”
“He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.”
“As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.”
“A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.”
“Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.”
“To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.”
“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.”
“A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.”
“Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.”
“Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.”
“There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”
“A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.”
“A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.”
“This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.”
“In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.”