The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.

We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.