People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.

I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.

The heart has such an influence over the understanding, that it is worth while to engage it in our interest.

When I reflect upon what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry and bustle and pleasure of the world had any reality; and I look on what has passed as one of those wild dreams which opium occasions, and I by no means wish to repeat the nauseous dose for the sake of the fugitive illusion.