Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.