I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.