When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.

It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

Lachrymal counsellors, with one foot in the cave of despair, and the other invading the peace of their friends, are the paralyzers of action, the pests of society, and the subtlest homicides in the world; they poison with a tear; and convey a dagger to the heart while they press you to their bosoms.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.