No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

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.

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.

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.

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.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

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