Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.