The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.