Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.

The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature.

The ocean is an object of no small terror.