The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.

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

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

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

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.

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.