Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth….
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
He who praises everybody praises nobody.
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas
Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
Nothing…will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.
The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow; but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
They who complain, in peace, of the insolence of the populace, must remember, that their insolence in peace is bravery in war.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know, because they have never deceived us.
