The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

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.

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.