If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.

If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it is less difficult to hide a tho…

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.