Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.
To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.
Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.
A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.
The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.