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.

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

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

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.

Emotions are raised in us, not only by the qualities and actions of others, but also by their feelings. I cannot behold a man in distress, without partaking of his pain; nor in joy, without partaking of his pleasure.

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.

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