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

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

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

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

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.

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.