When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and that in all probability they will they will get along very well after his death.

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.