A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.

It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.