The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.

Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.

Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.