Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!