When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.