ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

Confidence is its own security.

Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.

Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.

words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.