We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.

If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

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