Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.
Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds.
Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.
A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.
Labour is the purgatory of the erring.
A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.