It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants whose lives have been entirely consumed in colleges and among books; for however exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil's work for free.