Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.
Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.
The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.