Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.

Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.