Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
Round numbers are always false.
We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally c...
When any fit of gloominess or perversion of mind lays hold upon you make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.
Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, a...
I like a good hater.
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitl...
You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.
An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate" an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry and generally satisfy...
As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
No man ever yet became great by imitation.