No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.