It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality