“Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.”

“I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant.”

“The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.”

“People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after.”

“Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.”

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

“Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.”