Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.

As Pride increases, Fortune declines.

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.