Justice satisfies everybody.

It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.

Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.