Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

False praise is always confined to the great.

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

Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

Beauty is a dangerous property, tending to corrupt the mind of the wife, though it soon loses its influence over the husband. A figure agreeable and engaging, which inspires affection, without the ebriety of love, is a much safer choice.

A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of which every other is equally sensible. Yours and mine are terms in all languages, familiar among savages, and understood even by children. This is a fact, which every human creature can testify.

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.