Where there's no law, there's no bread.

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.

Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.

To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes; and this is not the work of a day.

That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.