Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.