Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.