Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

False praise is always confined to the great.

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every one of his demands will oblige you to stop short at last, after he has become a little headstrong.

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.