Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.