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.

Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

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.

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.

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

False praise is always confined to the great.

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.