How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.

He that lives well, is learned enough.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.