It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: "Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think," and the like.

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.